By Ryan Dombal on November 29, 2010 at 1:15 p.m. EST

Photo by Derek Ashman/DigitalGlobe

Last week, we reported on an art project spearheaded by Radiohead's Thom Yorke, inspired by the drawing on cover of Yorke's solo album, The Eraser, that is part of the climate change awareness project 350 Earth.Well, as you can tell by the pic above, it happened as scheduled on the morning of November 27, as 2,000 people came together in Brighton, England to form the image of King Canute (who pointlessly tried to control the waves). Check out more pictures of it over at 350 Earth's Flickr page, via NME.

By Ryan Dombal on November 22, 2010 at 10:40 a.m. EST

Like many reasonable people, Thom Yorke is wary about the prospect of climate change and its effects on future generations of people living on this earth. And now he's taking on the issue through 350 Earth, a global art project aimed at creating "massive public art installations... large enough to be seen from space," according to their site.

"I'm friends with the guys in Radiohead, and Jonny Greenwood met me in London a while back," said Norton. "So given the spiritual ties in this film, I started talking to him about this idea: 'What would you use to record this divine-like tuning sound?' And he and Thom [Yorke] had been playing a lot of weird ambient stuff at the time and so, amazingly, they just unloaded tons and tons of files to us of these sound experiments that they had been doing. We just listened to them in awe until [director] John [Curran] eventually got [composer] John O'Brien to come in and see what he could make of it."

It is unclear whether the Yorke/Greenwood music made the final film, which is out October 8, or if the score will be released. Watch the Stone trailer below-- is it me or is Milla Jovovich out-acting De Niro here ...

By Ryan Dombal on June 28, 2010 at 12:50 p.m. EDT

Glastonbury is still quite possibly the best music festival in the world not only because it attracts the biggest of the big but because the biggest of the big often do things at Glastonbury that they probably won't do anywhere else. Like a surprise set from Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood. So even though headliners U2 had to cancel their appearance, Glasto still looked great, based on professional-quality YouTube evidence. And, shock of all shocks, it was even sunny. In England. Who knew?

Click on to see video of a headbanded Yorke doing "Karma Police" (filmed by Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij, no less), as well as Gorillaz teaming up with Snoop Dogg, Lou Reed, and Mark E. Smith, the xx getting blown off the stage by special guest Florence Welch, Shakira covering the xx, and Stevie Wonder paying tribute to Michael Jackson:

By Larry Fitzmaurice on June 25, 2010 at 5:50 p.m. EDT

Photo by Sung Kim

England's massive Glastonbury Festival is celebrating its 40th anniversary this weekend at Worthy Farm in Somerset. There's still two more days left to the fest, but a particularly huge occurrence has already taken place: a surprise set today from Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood.

According to At Ease, the pair were introduced by festival organizer Michael Eavis. Yorke, introducing himself as "Thomas Yorke", then stepped out on stage performed a few solo tunes. Greenwood later joined him. Check out the setlist below:

By Ryan Dombal on April 23, 2010 at 2:15 p.m. EDT

"I wanted Thom Yorke to do 'Saint Is a Sinner Too', but I didn't have the balls to call him."

-- Slash thought about asking the Radiohead frontman to sing a song on his new solo album. While it seems unlikely that Yorke would've said yes, we never thought he'd be in a band with Flea, either. (via Contactmusic via NME)